Scientists may have just found evidence of a parallel universe <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />The first time scientists noted strange, high-energy particles bursting from the ice in Antarctica was back in 2006. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />ANITA — short for Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna — is a NASA sensor carried high into the cold air by a weather balloon to detect cosmic rays emanating from space or bouncing back off the ice below. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />But these ultra-high-energy particles — a million times more powerful than particles created on Earth — seemed to be coming from deep within the ice below, New Scientist reports. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />And now, after reviewing the previous data, scientists at the University of Hawaii suggest these particles may hail from a parallel universe — and where another Earth where everything runs backward, including time itself. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />Indeed, even the standard law of physics in that universe would run in reverse. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />"What we saw is something that looked just like a cosmic ray, as seen in reflection off the ice sheet, but it wasn't reflected," Peter Gorham, the physicist who led the research, tells the University of Hawaii News. <br /> <br />--bl-- <br /> <br />"It was as if the cosmic ray had come out of the ice itself. <br /> <br />So we published a paper on that, we just suggested that this was in pretty strong tension with the standard model of physics." <br /> <br />The phenomenon, Gorham adds, "could be an indication of some new type of physics, what we call beyond the standard model of physics." <br /> <br />The fact they're blazing outward from our planet not only defies standard physics, but also suggests high up in the Antarctic, there may be an overlap with a kind of bizarro world. <br /> <br />But of course, to inhabitants of that world, our version of Earth would be the one that runs in reverse. <br /> <br />"Not everyone was comfortable with the hypothesis," Gorham tells New Scientist. <br /> <br />Gorham's explanation raises the tantalizing possibility that the Big Bang created a second universe alongside our own, a kind of bizarro universe. <br /> <br />Further investigation may even prove, at last, that parallel universes exist.
